Best Poems Written by Ashling O Connor

Growing

no inclination to take lines
but i do it anyway

lines of my mothers poetry
a youth i never knew i had 
captured in a book i never read 
pages turned by strangers 
they know my first steps
first word
the shape i made in the oven 
and yet
don’t know my name 

i am grown now
She no longer sits on a pedestal 
and neither should they
take it down
crack the spine 
roll up pennies 
and snort another beautiful line
we don’t know any other way

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